That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way.

Above all, in my anger, I was sad. Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a frozen kernel of sorrow that the fire is trying -- valiantly, fruitlessly -- to eradicate.

I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by another name - is the source of almost every sorrow.

To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.

Geniuses have the shortest biographies.

It doesn't ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin and graft itself, come to seem irremovable.

We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.

Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking.

Knowing your purpose on earth is simple, but the task here is to bring about the success of your destiny.

Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche is the man who had such a long record of infamy the devil would be blue with envy.

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind.

The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.

Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.

But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds.